The seventh Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 14-16, 2010) was again a big success. 36 selected film projects from 22 countries were presented. In Berlin, the producers of the projects met with interested potential co-producers and financiers in over 1000 individual one-on-one meetings.

 

In addition to the 22 projects (chosen from 354 submissions) in the official selection, three projects were presented at the “Rotterdam-Berlinale-Express” in cooperation with the CineMart Rotterdam. Furthermore, eleven newcomer projects from the Berlinale Talent Campus were selected for the “Talent Project Market.”

 

The project selection 2010 attracted great attention among potential co-producers and financiers. This year's selection included works by award-winning directors such as Marco Bechis (known for films like Garage Olimpo and Birdwatchers) whose new project Liquid Roads was presented by the Italian company Classic Srl, János Szász (Woyzeck, The Witman Boys) who was in Berlin to take meetings for his new project The Notebook together with producer Sandor Soeth from the German production company Intuit Pictures, or Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return, The Banishment) whose new project Elena was presented by producer Alexander Rodnyansky's company Non-Stop Production from Russia.

 

For the list of projects, please see Project Selection

 

In addition to the one-on-one meetings, the framework programme with Theme Talks on topics like "Financial Packaging", "Green Production" and "3-D Production" where participants could find expert insight and exchange ideas, as well as Case Studies on Berlinale Films such as Mohamed Al Daradji's Son of Babylon (a seven-country co-production) and Tomas Vinterberg's Submarino also generated high interest.

Till January, producers and financiers interested in becoming involved with the selected projects could apply to attend without a project. Please find details at Participation without Project.

Many projects have found their financing in Berlin during the past six editions of the Berlinale Co-Production Market. In the meantime, more than 90 projects from previous years are already in production or have been completed, and many more are underway.

 

Click on the pop-up link below, to view the list of realised projects since 2004:

Realised Projects Berlinale Co-Production Market

 

Three films that the Co-Production Market successfully assisted in the past years have screened at the Berlinale 2010: the Iranian-German co-production Shekarchi (by Rafi Pitts) has been selected for Competition, and Esmir Filho’s feature debut The Famous and The Dead as well as Rusudan Pirveli's Susa will be showing in Generation.

 

Films that have successfully premiered in the past year include Lebanon by Samuel Maoz which won the Golden Lion in Venice, the Sundance 2010 World Cinema Audience Award winner Contracorriente/Undertow by Javier Fuentes-León (Talent Project Market 2005) Soundless Wind Chime by Kit Hung (Talent Project Market 2004; Berlin International Film Festival, Forum), Lost Persons Area by Caroline Strubbe (Rotterdam-Berlinale Express 2007; Cannes Film Festival, Critics’ Week; SACD Screenplay Award), and Amreeka by Cherien Dabis (Talent Project Market 2007; Cannes Film Festival, Directors’ Fortnight; FIPRESCI Prize), Small Crime by Christos Georgiou which became a summer hit in German cinemas.

 

Many more films are currently in production and post-production.